Northamptonshire Software Engineering Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alcester Aldershot Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Corby Coulsdon Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Lothian Luton Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlow Mayfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Rutland Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimborne Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	63
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	18	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.449 %	2.500 %
Salaries quoted	17	16
Average minimum salary	£23,706	£20,875
Average salary	£26,029	£23,063
% change on same period last year	+12.86 %
Average maximum salary	£28,353	£25,250
UK excluding London average salary	£36,652	£35,705
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Processes & Methodologies Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	735	640
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.425 %	0.275 %
Salaries quoted	670	521
Average minimum salary	£38,615	£39,829
Average salary	£42,026	£42,897
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Average maximum salary	£45,437	£45,965
UK excluding London average salary	£42,675	£44,216
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Software Engineering East Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Northamptonshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northampton	+6	15	£23,393	+23.12 %
Corby	-	2	£37,500	-

Software Engineering East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Software Engineering also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Software Engineering.

1 19 (73.08 %) Degree 2 15 (57.69 %) Embedded C 2 15 (57.69 %) C 2 15 (57.69 %) C++ 3 12 (46.15 %) Mathematics 3 12 (46.15 %) MFC 3 12 (46.15 %) Visual Studio 3 12 (46.15 %) Windows 3 12 (46.15 %) Postgraduate 4 6 (23.08 %) Computer Science 5 5 (19.23 %) PHP 5 5 (19.23 %) SQL 6 4 (15.38 %) Artificial Intelligence 6 4 (15.38 %) .NET 6 4 (15.38 %) PhD

6 4 (15.38 %) MS Visio 7 3 (11.54 %) J2EE 7 3 (11.54 %) Java 7 3 (11.54 %) JDBC 7 3 (11.54 %) Servlets 7 3 (11.54 %) XML 7 3 (11.54 %) XSLT 7 3 (11.54 %) Neural Network 7 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (7.692 %) System Testing 8 2 (7.692 %) ASP 8 2 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 8 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 8 2 (7.692 %) JavaScript 8 2 (7.692 %) C#

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Software Engineering also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (46.15 %) MFC 2 4 (15.38 %) .NET 3 3 (11.54 %) J2EE 3 3 (11.54 %) JDBC 3 3 (11.54 %) Servlets 3 3 (11.54 %) XML 3 3 (11.54 %) XSLT 4 2 (7.692 %) ASP 4 2 (7.692 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 4 (15.38 %) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 12 (46.15 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (7.692 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (3.846 %) Military 2 1 (3.846 %) Retail 2 1 (3.846 %) Aerospace 2 1 (3.846 %) Government	Job Titles 1 18 (69.23 %) Developer 2 16 (61.54 %) Graduate 3 13 (50.00 %) Graduate Developer 4 9 (34.62 %) Software Developer 5 8 (30.77 %) Graduate Software Developer 6 6 (23.08 %) Software Engineer 7 5 (19.23 %) Trainee Developer 7 5 (19.23 %) Trainee 8 3 (11.54 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 3 (11.54 %) J2EE Software Engineer 8 3 (11.54 %) Java Developer 8 3 (11.54 %) J2EE Developer 8 3 (11.54 %) Java Software Engineer 9 2 (7.692 %) C# Software Engineer 10 1 (3.846 %) C++ Programmer 10 1 (3.846 %) Senior Developer 10 1 (3.846 %) Programmer 10 1 (3.846 %) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 12 (46.15 %) Mathematics 2 6 (23.08 %) Computer Science 3 4 (15.38 %) Artificial Intelligence 4 3 (11.54 %) Neural Network	Operating Systems 1 12 (46.15 %) Windows 2 2 (7.692 %) Linux 2 2 (7.692 %) LynxOS 3 1 (3.846 %) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (7.692 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 15 (57.69 %) C 1 15 (57.69 %) C++ 1 15 (57.69 %) Embedded C 2 5 (19.23 %) PHP 2 5 (19.23 %) SQL 3 3 (11.54 %) Java 4 2 (7.692 %) JavaScript 4 2 (7.692 %) C# 4 2 (7.692 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 19 (73.08 %) Degree 2 12 (46.15 %) Postgraduate 3 4 (15.38 %) PhD	Vendors 1 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.846 %) Green Hills